The Yadot Group Acquires Hitch Media

The Yadot Group to Acquire Socials Dallas

September 14, 2024

Marketing & Advertising

The Yadot Group announced it has agreed to acquisition terms to buy Socials Dallas, a Dallas-based experiential agency. The deal is framed as supporting Socials Dallas’s domestic and global expansion and helping Yadot further its media innovation strategy.

The Yadot Group Acquires Jetset Productions

August 20, 2024

Media & Entertainment

The Yadot Group entered into an acquisition agreement to purchase the Italian creative agency Jetset Productions. The deal is intended to strengthen Yadot’s growth opportunity in Western Europe while combining Yadot’s global vision with Jetset’s production and creative services.

United Talent Agency Acquires MediaHound

June 27, 2022

Media & Entertainment

United Talent Agency (UTA) has acquired El Segundo-based software and data analytics firm MediaHound, integrating its team and proprietary Entertainment Graph into UTA IQ to accelerate the agency's data and analytics capabilities. MediaHound's technology and consumer sites (Autum and Date Night) will be folded into UTA IQ to provide enhanced insights and recommendation capabilities for studios, streamers and agency clients; MediaHound was advised by Qualia Legacy Advisors.

Yelp Acquires Hatch (Hatchify) for $270 Million to Expand AI-Driven Services SaaS

February 2, 2026

Cloud & SaaS

Yelp has agreed to acquire AI-powered lead-management and customer-communication platform Hatch in a cash deal valued at approximately $270 million, plus about $30 million in retention payments over two to three years. The transaction was completed on February 2, 2026, with Hatch becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of Yelp.

Trailhead Media Acquires Horton Outdoor Advertising Assets

November 1, 2021

Marketing & Advertising

Trailhead Media, a Mississippi-based out-of-home advertising operator backed by investor Viking Global, purchased Horton Outdoor’s billboard assets, including 146 structures (324 faces) with 47 digital displays concentrated north of Atlanta and in parts of Alabama and Florida. The assets were previously held by Horton Outdoor, a portfolio company of McWhorter Capital Partners; terms were not disclosed and Drachman M&A Co. represented the seller.

Hawke Media Acquires Tribute Media

June 8, 2023

Marketing & Advertising

Hawke Media, a Santa Monica-based marketing consultancy, has acquired Tribute Media, a web marketing agency headquartered in Meridian, Idaho. The acquisition expands Hawke's presence into the U.S. Northwest and brings Tribute's web development, inbound marketing and HubSpot expertise into Hawke's portfolio.